Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steiner Chapel Hill...
...beauty of the Aldine editions of illustrated works like the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili fostered an unsurpassed quality in Venetian woodblock cutting. Indeed, Titian's twelve-sheet print The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red tonal vigor and grandeur of notation, is to woodcut what the Sistine Chapel is to fresco...
DIED. Rosser Reeves, 73, Madison Avenue's high-powered guru of the hard sell, and chairman from 1955 to 1966 of Ted Bates, which he helped make one of the top five ad agencies in the world; of a heart attack; in Chapel Hill, N.C. A pioneer of political commercials (for the 1952 Eisenhower campaign), he preached against mere "show window" ads that win art-direction awards, emphasizing instead a product's "unique selling proposition." Samples of his credo at work: ads for M & M candies ("They melt in your mouth, not in your hand"), and Anacin ("Fast...
...Chapel Hill...
Early one morning in October 1969, outside the Oratorio of San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily, the chapel's caretaker watched in bewilderment as a cat scuttled into the sanctuary through a wide-open door. The building should have been secured against felines, and thieves as well. During the previous night, however, intruders had forced a shutter of one of the chapel windows. Once inside, they cut away the altarpiece with a razor blade and marched out the front door with their prize: an 8-ft. by 7-ft. canvas, the Nativity, painted by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio...